{"id":916,"date":"2007-05-02T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=916"},"modified":"2007-05-02T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T08:05:00","slug":"a_video_visit_with_ellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/05\/a_video_visit_with_ellington\/","title":{"rendered":"A Video Visit With Ellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Ellington&#8217;s urbanity and sophistication are part of jazz lore, but as the years go by there are fewer people who had direct exposure to his personality. Rare video of a 1963 interview provides a generous sample of Ellington&#8217;s charm. It also demonstrates the carefully crafted line of patter that served him both as effective public relations and as a layer of protection around a highly visible man who managed to keep himself private. Ellington spoke with Sven Lindahl of SVT, the Swedish broadcasting system.<br \/>\nThe interview on SVT&#8217;s web site comes in two parts. <a href=\"http:\/\/svt.se\/content\/1\/c6\/47\/65\/24\/oa-1963-0203-aktuelltapropa-duke-del1_hi.ram\"target=\"_blank\">This link<\/a> takes you to part 1, in which Ellington gives elegant expression to his view of a future in which music would be without categories. To view part 2, you must go to <a href=\"http:\/\/svt.se\/svt\/road\/Classic\/shared\/mediacenter\/index.jsp?&#038;d=29695&#038;a=476524&#038;lid=is_search527895&#038;lpos=1\"target=\"_blank\">this link <\/a>and scroll up to &#8220;Duke Ellington del 2&#8221; in the menu labeled <strong>\u00c3\u00b6ppet arkiv<\/strong> on the right side of the screen.<br \/>\nThanks to the musicologist <a href=\"http:\/\/music.concordia.ca\/Music_Faculty\/Andrew\/Homzy.html\"target=\"_blank\">Andrew Homzy<\/a> of Concordia University in Montreal for leading the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff to this valuable piece of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Ellington&#8217;s urbanity and sophistication are part of jazz lore, but as the years go by there are fewer people who had direct exposure to his personality. Rare video of a 1963 interview provides a generous sample of Ellington&#8217;s charm. It also demonstrates the carefully crafted line of patter that served him both as effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}